Quotes About Doubt

Every day I would run to the library to get new books. Reading was a passion: I wanted to understand life. I read Dostoevsky and Brehm, Jules Verne and Turgenev, Dickens and the Zhivopisnoye Obozreniye; and the more I read, th emore I doubted everything. Lies surrounded me on all sides; one moment I wanted to run off to the Indian jungle, the next to throw a bomb at the governor-general's house on Tverskaya, the next to hang myself.

I believed in Papa's stories a lot longer than I should have.

I had to second-guess everything. The classmates who had elected me president—did they really think I was the best in the class, or was I just a novelty object they wanted to play with?

The thinking few is right. But not always.

Then Jesus spoke: "Mountains are moved with faith, Immaculee, but if faith were easy, all the Mountains would be gone".

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the lifetime of one man, and thereby to make a period of time fruitless in the progress of mankind toward improvement, thus working to the disadvantage of posterity - that is absolutely forbidden. For himself (and only for a short time) a man may postpone enlightenment in what he ought to know, but to renounce it for posterity is to injure and trample on the rights of mankind .

Una vez lanzada una acusación, por muy infundada que sea, la duda empieza a teñir la mente de quien la escucha.

Kendi yasama ihanet etmeden bu tasalar? nas?l hakl? görebilirdim? GirdiÄŸiniz ç?kmazlar?n önemine nas?l inanabilirdim? Size gerçekten inand?kça, o güçsüz ve kendini beÄŸenmiÅŸ sözlerinizden, o miskin davran??lar?n?zdan, o budalaca kuÅŸkular?n?zdan daha fazla bir ÅŸey olduÄŸunuza tamamen inand?kça, size nas?l inanabilirdim?

I can no longer see a path in any path.

If you have a faith, if you've some deep conviction, whether you're a Nazi or a Communist or what the hell else you are then you can sacrifice yourself and others to your faith. But from the moment you've no faith from that moment you live in a deep inner confusion from then on you're exposed to what Strindberg calls 'the powers'.

When Jesus was nailed to the cross and hung there in torment - he cried out "God, my God! Why hast thou forsaken me?" He cried out as loud as he could. He thought that his heavenly father had abandoned him. He believed everything he'd ever preached was a lie. The moments before he died, Christ was seized by doubt. Surely that must have been his greatest hardship? God's silence.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop.

You never know when I'm lying. So it would be more practical to believe what I say -Pauline in "In the Presence of a Clown

Por qué, al menos, no me es posible matar a Dios en mi interior? ¿Por qué prefiere vivir en mí de una forma tan dolorosa y humillante, puesto que yo le maldigo y desearía expulsarlo de mi corazón? ¿Sabes? Estoy a punto de llegar a una conclusión... Creo que Dios es una especie de realidad engañosa, de la cual los hombres como yo no podemos desprendernos

However, its authenticity is doubted by many. (See: THE RED RECORD (1989), translated by David McCutchen.)

I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.

It ain't necessarily so—The things that you're liableTo read in the Bible—It ain't necessarily so.

could anyone know when an actor was true and not acting?

Better to live in doubt than to die in certainty.

What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each.